Sergio Maltagliati (born 1960 in Pescia, Italy) is an Italian Internet-based artist, composer, and visual-digital artist. His first musical experience with the Gialdino Gialdini Musical Band was in the early 70s.

Biography

On 04/10/2023 he was elected Honorary Academician of the Accademia delle arti del disegno in Florence. Historical Academy founded in Florence in 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany at the suggestion of Giorgio Vasari, as a leading exponent of the Florentine artistic current known as Musica d'Arte (Visual Music and Fluxus). Sergio Maltagliati an artist from Florence Italy; studied music at the Florence Conservatory, then he began to paint. Thus creating a new method of writing music where the score becomes a visual composition. The relation between the sound and color creates a living feeling that art is not dead. It does not stop at the artist's last attempt at the canvas, but goes beyond to the viewer. It is the relationship between artist and viewer, one is no different from the other. Now the viewer can take the step that the artist may dare not to across. It is the point of translation a fear to most artist that want to create and let their work go. This kind of art allows the viewer to create with the artist and create so much more. Sergio Maltagliati has always been deeply interested in a multimedia concept of art. His education, in both music and the visual arts, has placed him in the position to incorporate sign, colour, and sound into a unitary concept of multiple perception, through analogies, contrasts, stratifications, and associations. He's a composer who joined, at the end of the eighties, the Florentine artistic current, that has been active since the end of World War II up to the present, including Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Giancarlo Cardini, Albert Mayr, Marcello Aitiani, Daniele Lombardi, Pietro Grossi. These musicians have experimented the interaction among sound, sign and vision, a synaesthetics of art derived from historical avant-gardes, from Kandinskij to futurism, to Scrjabin and Schoenberg, all the way to Bauhaus. In 2021 the Luigi Dallapiccola Study Center made him official in the Florentine Music Archive of the 20th century, recognizing him as one of the most significant composers of the 20th century, active in Florence. His work in the eighties is also based in involving, with didactic-educational projects, students as executors of performances in the example of the Music Circus carried out in 1984 in a High School in Piemonte by John Cage. And it is the American musician (met in 1991 in Zurich for the execution of Europeras 1&2 )who appreciates this aspect of Maltagliati's work, because he is able to involve young people as performers. These works, besides building approach to music and, specifically, developing a different way of listening, aim at expanding the concept of artistic creation to the executor, till it reaches just the user, often unprovided with a traditional artistic formation. Since 1997, Sergio Maltagliati has dealt principally in music on the Internet and one of his first compositions intended for the network, netOper@ a new, and the first Italian interactive work for the Web starting in the spring of 1997. The interactive work will be presented simultaneously in real and cyberspace. The Opera is realized with the collaboration of Pietro Grossi, the legendary father of Italian music informatics. The essential aspect to Sergio Maltagliati's approach is the idea that art is not just the fruit of the composer, the creation is always the fruit of collaboration. Two of his works are strongly based on this concept: neXtOper@_1.03 (2001) a work for mobile phones, and midi_Visu@lMusiC (2005) music and images on I-Mode mobile phone. In 1999, he writes the program autom@tedVisualMusiC, software from experiences of the visual HomeArt programs designed by Grossi in the '80s, written in the language BBC BASIC with computer Acorn Archimedes A310, a project that creates abstract designs and sound by using programming to make the piece interactive and adds movement. This artwork not only has visually pieces, but also is interactive. In 2001, he has participated in the project Interview yourself by Amy Alexander. In 2023 he was selected for the first international Virtual Exhibition on the island of Venice Viral Human' / 'Public Art and the Metaverse. By means of a specially created App, it is possible to move virtually among the palaces and squares of Venice, where one can see or hear an inspired work, linked to the location. Scala Contarini del Bovolo, is a 15th century palace with a spiral staircase of steps that winds around the outside of the palace. The spiral of the chicciola brings to mind the golden spiral, many 20th century composers chose it as a model for their music. The work Battimenti created by Maltagliati for this place makes us reflect on the deep connection between science and art. He currently uses a personal computer to set up interactive sound and graphics works, open compositions where the listener has a predominant and decisive role.

More significant works

Since the end of the 1970s, his catalog includes instrumental compositions, performances, together with paintings, digital and interactive graphic and musical works which are often the result (given his double formation of musical and visual studies) of conversion into images and vice versa of a precise musical thought, transposed in an innovative musical writing.

Instrumental compositions

Computer Visu@lMusiC

autom@tedVisualMusic, generative visual music software, creates images and sounds in relation to precise correspondences sound-symbol-color, producing multiple variations.

Performance

Exhibitions

CD / DVD

The path of more than fifty years of musical culture in Florence, since the end of the Second World War, is documented in these two audio CDs. This audio recording contains the meeting of composers and pianists who are the protagonists of the Music of Art in Florence, a significant phenomenon in the history of the second half of the twentieth century.

Audio tape

(Cassette tape) Recorder from original tape Quantum Bit Limited Edition